Mark Jarman

Dailiness

Essays on Poetry

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Produktbeschreibung

In these essays poet Mark Jarman explains why he believes consciousness is a gift and poetry a gift of consciousness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Paul Dry Books
• Seitenzahl: 177
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 137mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9781589881419
• ISBN-10: 1589881419
• Artikelnr.: 55022590

Autorenporträt

Mark Jarman is the author of eleven books of poetry. The Heronry is his most recent. He has also published two books of essays and reviews, won awards for his poetry, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is Centennial Professor of English at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.

Inhaltsangabe

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface: The Poetry of Daily Life
When the Light Came On: The Epic Gilgamesh
To Make the Final Unity: Metaphor's Matter and Spirit
The Story of a Feeling: Poetry's Passionate Repetition
American Devotions
Writing as a Daily Practice
Dailiness
Writing for God: The Life and Work of George Herbert
You Are Not Finished: Seamus Heaney's Translation of the Aeneid, Book VI
Becoming and Going: Soul and Self in Four Poems
"Something Like That": A Pronoun's Life in Poetry